On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 10:09 PM, Mage m...@mage.hu wrote:
Hello,
why is that
pkg_add -r x11/kde4 could not install kde4 (404 not found) but portmaster
-P x11/kde4 did, however
portmaster -P xorg didn't install xorg (it just reinstalled some modules)
then pkg_add -r xorg installed it.
I am a bit confused with these.
I was reading this:
http://freebsd.kde.org/
and this:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-install.html
First I installed kde4 then xorg. My ports are up to date.
Mage
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I think what you're running into here is a difference in semantics
between the pkg_* tools and the ports tools. When using pkg_add -r,
you do not need to specify the category. pkg_add will determine the
proper objformat and release to fetch from ftp, so in this case
pkg_add -r xorg will work just fine.
When you use portmaster, it's the opposite. You do need to tell it
'x11/xorg' so it knows you want a specific port in /usr/ports instead
of a glob pattern of an existing port in /var/db/pkg - see this in the
SYNOPSIS section of the man page portmaster(8)
...
portmaster [Common Flags] full name of port directory in /var/db/pkg
portmaster [Common Flags] full path to /usr/ports/foo/bar
portmaster [Common Flags] glob pattern of directories from /var/db/pkg
...
Does that make more sense?
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